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by phazmatis 12y ago
When a non-technical website is hacked, I expect a dumb press release like this. But when an attack targets the tech industry, I expect a deeper level of coverage. What malware is served? Does it work on OS X or linux?
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Wow, if a damn IT sec company can't get secuiity right, how am I supposed to?
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Interesting article. I think burnout can be caused by a number of things, but I don't think everyone has a different burnout trigger. When faced with non-ideal conditions/expectations, burnout is inevitable. Sone people can cope w
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Wow, that's a new type of hipster startup cred. "We're post-web". All joking aside, I'm guessing startups like this play in a space where people (gov. contractors) aren't really impressed by a website.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Programming is mostly engineering. You are rearranging abstracted units. Usually, you are piping data from point A to B, in which case there exists one algorithm to do that. Sure, some devs have deeper problems, but the majority of us are s
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by phazmatis 12y ago
So this person was not only unaware that the algorithm was aad, they also were unaware that one algorithm oould be worse than another? Unless that second part is true, you juat have an employee making poor decisons. More aaths won't he
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Ah, they finally realized that there are non-trollish cases where people want to express a thought online without having it indexed and searchable by everyone they ever meet in life. Or they just want to compete with facebook...
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by phazmatis 12y ago
The BIOS has a lot of built in traps that, while minimalistic, make all PCs appear the same to you, the trap-user. This is the bare minimum to load an OS + drivers from disk, or run an OS installer, or turn your PC into a flappy bird arcade
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by phazmatis 12y ago
I've inherited a few minefields. I can see how they weren't always this way. Some very smart people designed the project, and then a dozen or so engineers came through and, failing to fully understand the project structure, made t
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by phazmatis 12y ago
This isn't surprising. If you tune your Genetic Rearranger 3000 to spit out blueberries that are really friggin' blue, and don't develop rough surfaces, and are resistant to certain molds, and don't track other metrics l
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by phazmatis 12y ago
To be extra cautious, they should profile people with older blockier phones. Oh no, now I said it, the TSA will likely do it. xD
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Most of the points he makes are a byproduct of expecting too much from other people. I.E. gem authors, or misunderstanding why something exists I.E. the ruby standard library, which is a motley crew of modules meant to let people write hack
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Every time I cludge new functionality into an existing repo, I wish microservices were more generally acceptable.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Crackpot conspiracy theory: Microsoft is whispering in the IRS's ear. The joke's on them: Once a piece of open source software has a foundation around it, it's pretty much just a bunch of people re-coloring widgets.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Like most aspects of the military, they don't want/need experts. They want someone who knows which knob to turn until all the nixie tubes light up.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
But won't there be a language barrier? And call me a distrustful cynic, but I somehow doubt those countries would accept that I just show up there and demand edumacation.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
This is an interesting idea, but I don't see how it differs from what Coursera and such are offering. Pay for a structured, college-like learning environment, to prove something to yourself, or brag. (I'm excluding those who are j
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by phazmatis 12y ago
That's not just racist and rude, it's also logically unsound. What do you think the percentage of odesk programmers in India is? 80% maybe? If you avoid people from that entire country, you're getting 1/5 of odesk. For
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Great. Now recruiters will be calling me offering ping-pong, beer fridays, and college tuition.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Well this is great. We're told to "just give women in tech a voice". So some organizers go looking for someone who's comfortable with keynoting the damn conference on these issues. She gives a weak "no, but maybe I
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by phazmatis 12y ago
The REPL is part of my TDD loop... Which is actually, write a test, come up with a plan to make it pass, google for the programming constructs I need in the language I'm using, test a snippet (or a fully functional line) in the REPL, c
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Yep. It seems like crypto devs have never heard of abstraction layers. That's what we get for letting a bunch of c programmers write this stuff ;p
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by phazmatis 12y ago
So people will just create a cleanroom reverse-engineered version of the mojang server.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Ideally, there would be some way to disclose this kind of info to whatever government regulatory agency is responsible for approving these things. In your situation, you have to worry that whoever you disclose this to is going to act irrati
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by phazmatis 12y ago
I'm proudly one of the insufferable "brogrammers" who wears that new employee backpack everywhere. I spend my free time learning new web frameworks. I go to tech meetups. Strike up a conversation with me and recoil in horror
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by phazmatis 12y ago
This is why I loved comodo firewall back in the day. You could block all outgoing connections, including some system processes. You would get a nice little dialog detailing what process was trying to reach the internet and what it was tryin
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by phazmatis 12y ago
"We don't have HR"... Sounds like they are risking a github-style fiasco.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Soylent is a huge first step. Henceforth, we'll know "what we don't know" about specific humans, and what is a general baseline throughout. That'll help us (humanity) make directed efforts to automate soylent mixtur
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by phazmatis 12y ago
There are books like this - old, obscure, and out of print. So yes. I'd love to read your modern take on the topic.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Scientists discover some weird thing they didn't expect, and start spitballing about what the pros/cons could be when reporters show up. News at 11.

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